Because these old LPs held only speech, I didn't get too fancy. Day Lewis and Marianne Moore read their own poems or hear John Barrymore read Shakespeare. So how do we bridge the world of vinyl to the world of ones and zeros?Ībout a year ago, I dug out my old, long-out-of-pressing, spoken-word LPs and ripped them to my hard-drive, so, while I walked my dogs, I could (with my MP3 player) listen to C. Still, we live in a digital age, wherein babies not yet weaned know how to swipe images across tablets and cell phones. And why not? The LP is intrinsically cool, spinning and black, a small feat of magic: a slab of plastic that when rubbed by a hard rock makes splendid music. Soon, possibly as soon as the CD's 40th anniversary in 2022, the CD player will be forgotten by most people, along with the 8-track and VCR, but the turntable will live forever. Teenagers, teenagers for God's sake, know all about vinyl. In contrast, when was the last time you saw a tuner or cassette player displayed? Was it just one decade ago or is it closer to three decades? In contrast, turntables seem to show up everywhere. Perhaps you, too, have recently been seeing LPs and turntables show up in ads, movies, commercials, and magazine photos.
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